Whatever happens in the Royal Rumble, all but one of the entrants will find themselves eliminated from the match. This means that the WWE has to come up with a range of different ways to eliminate wrestlers...

The group known as The Shield has no place in the Royal Rumble match, and the WWE needs to keep them out of it. These three men—Dean Ambrose, Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins —claim to have entered the WWE with a purpose...

Traditionally, the Royal Rumble has been sold as an event that could help any WWE Superstar’s career. The winner gets his choice of champion to face at WrestleMania . This means a main-event spot on the biggest show of the year...

It is almost unthinkable that World Championship Wrestling has been gone for more than a decade and that the number of fans who experienced the Monday Night Wars firsthand is steadily dwindling, but that is the burden of time moving on...

Few members of the WWE Universe would have truly believed on the first of January 2012—two days after his fight with Alistair Overeem at UFC 141—that Brock Lesnar would return to WWE television four months later, the day after WrestleMania...

A few trends come to mind when a WWE fan looks back at the year of wrestling that was 2012. John Cena —for the most part—was kept out of the title picture but still managed to headline the majority of the year’s pay-per-views...

In an attempt to capitalize on the fledgling Ultimate Fighting movement—and to appease several underutilized lower-card wrestlers—the WWE set up a pseudo-mixed martial arts tournament in the spring of 1998...

No weapon in WWE history is more iconic than the steel chair. This object’s majesty comes from the fact that it is light enough for anyone on the roster to wield, yet still looks terrifyingly dangerous whoever uses it...

For over 10 years, the WWE has been run with the same power structure. The day-to-day operations of the individual shows are run by general managers while a mysterious board of directors hovers above them ready to enact random acts of interference...